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British PM Cameron Mocked for Eating Hot Dog with Fork and Knife

I'm a red-state jingo, and I'll sometimes use a knife and fork, especially if I'm having something messy like a chili dog with onions and cheese. There's nothing wrong with wanting your food to end in your mouth, instead of on the ground.

- Ginger

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I'm a red-state jingo, and I'll sometimes use a knife and fork, especially if I'm having something messy like a chili dog with onions and cheese. There's nothing wrong with wanting your food to end in your mouth, instead of on the ground.

Ginger and Mr. Cameron are perfectly right. Everyone tends to forget that two items of modern "fast food" history were created at American World's Fairs (the 1893 World Columbian Exposition for "hot dogs" and the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair for ice cream cones) by sheer accident. The hot dogs were sausages that you were given a mitt to hold with originally, but people were absent-mindedly walking off with the mitts. The entrepreneur saw a baker nearby and bought roles to make sausage sandwiches, which were renamed frankfurters - they became "hot dogs" in an anti-German piece of nonsense that swept the U.S. in World War I, when we did not have German music played at concert halls, and sauerkraut was renamed "liberty cabbage" (and schnausers were renamed "liberty dogs"). The ice cream cone had a similar beginning at the St. Louis World's Fair when the seller their was running out of cheap plates to serve his ice cream scoops on, and saw a waffle seller nearby and got some waffles that he turned cone shape for his ice cream. Only difference was that the "ice cream cone" never had it's name changed for stupid super-patriotism.

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Ginger and Mr. Cameron are perfectly right. Everyone tends to forget that two items of modern "fast food" history were created at American World's Fairs (the 1893 World Columbian Exposition for "hot dogs" and the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair for ice cream cones) by sheer accident. The hot dogs were sausages that you were given a mitt to hold with originally, but people were absent-mindedly walking off with the mitts. The entrepreneur saw a baker nearby and bought roles to make sausage sandwiches, which were renamed frankfurters - they became "hot dogs" in an anti-German piece of nonsense that swept the U.S. in World War I, when we did not have German music played at concert halls, and sauerkraut was renamed "liberty cabbage" (and schnausers were renamed "liberty dogs"). The ice cream cone had a similar beginning at the St. Louis World's Fair when the seller their was running out of cheap plates to serve his ice cream scoops on, and saw a waffle seller nearby and got some waffles that he turned cone shape for his ice cream. Only difference was that the "ice cream cone" never had it's name changed for stupid super-patriotism.

We had similar name chaqnges

German Shepherd became Alsatian
Dachshund = Sausage Dog
Fritz = Devon

I'm sure there were a lot more.

Didn't USA have similar recently though when French Fries became [or some tried to make them] Freedom Fries

But I don't recall Hamburger changing anywhere.

G U T

There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

When I was a boy, you could get ice cream in a cone (which we called a cornet) or you could have a wafer - two thin rectangular pieces of biscuit containing a rectangular slab of ice cream. Eating these was a nightmare and wafers now seem defunct.

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I just think he was brave trying a hot dog.... being British and all.. the WORST FOOD I EVER HAD IN MY LIFE was a hot dog in London..I got it from thr truck outside the Royal Albert HAll....I'm an American.. we loves us some hot dogs... and it looked tatsty but WOW....that was TERRIBLE

Steadmund Brand

"The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago."- Lenny Bruce

Didn't USA have similar recently though when French Fries became [or some tried to make them] Freedom Fries

But I don't recall Hamburger changing anywhere.

G'Day GUT,

I heard something about "Freedom Fries" recently but I don't recall exactly what it was.

But we did demonstrate a similar idiocy regarding things "Commie" in the Cold War.

No doubt you have eaten salad with "thousand island dressing". Actually it is a version of "Russian" dressing (a bit more pickle bits or such inside it) that was created in the 1950s, like a culinary response to Senator McCarthy's crusade. It (unlike "liberty cabbage") has stayed around and is still sold side by side with Russian Dressing in supermarkets. There were also serious changes in the names of baseball teams (for awhile, the "Cincinatti Reds" had a name shift, but it did not last - fortunately). I'm surprised the "Boston Red Sox" lasted. I'm glad to say that the concert halls did not prohibit performances of Tschaikovski and Moussorgsky like they did Brahms and Wagner in the earlier period.

Jeff

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Wikipedia has Thousand Island and Russian dressings both appearing coterminously around 1910 or so.

I think 'hamburger' never changed because most Americans don't associate the name with the city of Hamburg. 'Burger' has become kind of a generic word for a meat or vegetable patty served in a round bun. Fishburger, chickenburger, and (especially) veggieburger are all commonly used.